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Thank You for Smoking
(2006)
Satirical comedy
follows the machinations of Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick
Naylor, who spins on behalf of cigarettes while trying to remain a
role model for his twelve-year-old son.
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Batman
Begins (2005)
Action/Adventure
and Crime/Gangster
A new
beginning for the Dark Knight, focusing on his younger days and
pitting him against the international nemesis Ra's Al Ghul, as well
as the nefarous Dr. Jonathan Crane, known to comic fans as The
Scarecrow. This film examines Batman's origin, and circumstances
lead him away from Gotham City and off to London, utilizing his
skills as a detective as he tracks down the shady, brilliant Al Ghul.
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First
Daughter (2004)
When Samantha
Mackenzie (Holmes), the 18-year-old daughter of the president of the
United States, demands that she be allowed to go to college without
having to be followed by a fleet of secret service agents (with
their suits, sunglasses, ear-pieces and very unhip attitudes), her
dad agrees... while actually assigning one of the youngest Secret
Service agents to follow her around on campus disguised as a student
anyway. The president's plan goes smoothly until the young agent
falls in love with this girl he has to spend all day following, and
she falls in love with him too, until... she finds out whom he
really is. Can their love outlive the deception that gave it fruit?
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Phone
Booth (2003)
Drama and
Thriller
1 hr. 20 min.
In this
intense drama, which takes place in and around a single phone booth
in New York City, a man who is being watched by a rooftop killer
with a sniper rifle must use the phone to save his life or else risk
the consequences of leaving the booth.
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Pieces
of April (2003)
Drama
1 hr. 21 min.
April Burns
(Holmes) is a 21-year-old wild child with a very big problem.
Against her better judgment, she's invited her straightlaced family
for Thanksgiving dinner. Her boyfriend, Bobby, wants to help, but
she banishes him from the apartment while she attempts to cook the
meal. To make matters worse, she then discovers that her oven
doesn't work. So, while April is forced to ask her eccentric
neighbors for help in cooking her fifteen pound turkey, the Burns
Family begins a reluctant journey from suburban Pennsylvania toward
New York City's Lower East Side. April's Dad, Jim Burns (Platt)
tries to convince the family that the day will be beautiful. Her
mom, Joy (Clarkson) has her doubts and freely voices them. April's
teenage sister and brother are squeezed between Grandma Dottie and a
bag of snacks in the back seat as the Burns' family car hurtles
toward Manhattan and what will most likely be certain disaster.
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The
Singing Detective (2003)
Musical/Performing
Arts and Thriller
1 hr. 49 min.
Robert
Downey Jr. stars as Dan Dark, a bedridden crime novelist writing
about a private investigator who doubles as a singer in a dance
band. The detective is slowly drawn into a web of intrigue during
the murder investigation of a prostitute. Heavily medicated, the
border between reality and fiction starts to blur in Dark's mind.
The plot is woven together with his own childhood memories, and soon
he is living in a fevered film-noir hell constructed by his own
twisted psyche, where everyone is his enemy and no one can be
trusted. Mel Gibson co-stars as the enigmatic Dr. Gibbon, the
hospital psychiatrist who dares to take on Dark's tortured mind.
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Abandon
(2002)
Drama and
Suspense/Horror
1 hr. 39 min.
Catherine
Burke (Katie Holmes) is under pressure. She faces exams, completion
of her thesis and a competitive interview process, all of which is
compounded when a police detective, Wade Handler (Benjamin Bratt)
begins investigating the two-year-old disappearance of her
boyfriend, Embry Langan (Charlie Hunnam), a young man whose memory
haunts and obsesses her. As the investigation continues, Catherine
is forced to choose between her past passions and new possibilities,
even as Handler is discovering surprising new facts about Embry and
his possible connection to another disappearance from campus.
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The
Gift (2000)
Thriller
1 hr. 51 min.
Annie, a
young recently widowed mother of three, lives in Brixton, Georgia
and supports herself by giving psychic readings. The narrow-minded
townspeople shun her for her gift of psychic vision. When Valerie
drops in for a reading, Annie advises her to leave her abusive
husband. Soon, Annie finds herself in danger as the body of a woman
is found and investigators turn to her for help. Slowly, the dark
secrets of this rural southern town are exposed and Annie's 'gift'
becomes her only hope of saving herself and her family.
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Wonder
Boys (2000)
Comedy and Drama
In Curtis
Hanson's WONDER BOYS, based on the novel by Michael Chabon, Michael
Douglas delivers one of his most compelling performances as Grady
Tripp, a disheveled, perpetually adolescent English professor
amiably coasting toward a midlife crisis. On the inaugural day of
his university's literary festival, Grady's third wife leaves him,
and his mistress, university chancellor Sara Gaskell (Frances
McDormand), announces that she's pregnant with their child. To
further complicate matters, Grady's reckless editor, Terry Crabtree
(Robert Downey Jr.), desperate to revive his flaccid career, arrives
to pick up Grady's far-from-finished seven-years-in-the-making
follow-up to his critically acclaimed first book. As if that weren't
enough to keep him reeling, Grady soon becomes an unwilling
accomplice to a canine homicide and the heist of a rare jacket once
worn by Marilyn Monroe, both committed by his brightest student--the
languid, slightly pathological James Leer (Tobey Maguire). Dressed
in a ratty pink bathrobe and driving a stolen car with a dead dog in
the trunk, Grady must now find a way to return Marilyn's coat, write
the great American novel, nurture James's literary talents,
discourage the advances of an amorous coed (Katie Holmes), avoid the
wrath of a tiny James Brown look-alike (Richard Knox), and reconcile
with Sara...all before the weekend is over.
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First
Daughter (1999)
Comedy and
Romance
1 hr. 44 min.
Samantha
Mackenzie has fame and glamour, but she just wants what every
college freshman wants: the opportunity to experience the world away
from home and, most importantly, away from her parents. She just
wants to be treated like anyone else. But it's not going to be easy,
because Sam's home address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and her dad
is John Mackenzie, the President of the United States. Now living
thousands of miles away from the White House, Sam hopes that being
out on her own means she'll be free of the constraints of being the
First Daughter. But everywhere she turns there's a Secret Service
agent at the ready, and her fellow freshmen won't let her stop being
the most famous student in the country. Sam's roommate, Mia, is
determined to have fun--and take Sam along for the ride. Sam's
adventures get even more interesting when she meets and falls head
over heels for James, the Resident Advisor in her dorm. College--and
life--has even more surprises and chal! lenges in store for Sam, and
she's determined to discover where she belongs, what she wants, and
who she really is.
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Go
(1999)
Comedy
1 hr. 38 min.
Eighteen-year-old
Ronna (Sarah Polley), accompanied by reluctant partner-in-crime and
fellow supermarket checkout clerk Claire, is desperately looking to
score some rent money before she's evicted. Simon, an impulsive
Brit, is driving a stolen car with buddy Marcus during a wild night
of partying on the Las Vegas strip. Adam and Zack, a pair of TV
stars, find themselves in the middle of a real-life drug sting-and a
very creepy Christmas dinner. Where are we? Who are these people?
Welcome to the edgy comedy GO, in which the outrageous misadventures
of a group of young people collide in Los Angeles' raucous
underground scene.
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Teaching
Mrs. Tingle (1999)
Suspense/Horror
1 hr. 33 min.
Mrs. Tingle
is the history teacher that hates everyone, and everyone hates her
right back. Leigh Ann feels the same way, but she's trying really
hard to be valedictorian to earn a scholarship to college, so she
pours her heart and soul into a project only to have Mrs. Tingle
dismiss it as worthless without even examining it. Her aimless,
loser friend Luke tries to come to her rescue by swiping the answers
to Tingle's final exam, only to have this duplicity discovered, and
Leigh Ann blamed for it. Her academic career in serious jeopardy,
she goes to Tingle's home with Luke and her best friend Jo, hoping
to convince the malevolent Tingle not to turn them in... and after a
violent mishap, things get complicated pretty quickly when they have
to hold her hostage in her own home to figure out how to get her not
to press charges and send them all to jail... a twisted spiral of
panic ensues...
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Disturbing
Behavior (1998)
Thriller
In the
scenic town of Cradle Bay, the teen population is remarkably
well-behaved. It's up to the scruffy new arrivals to uncover the
diabolical means by which the town's grown-ups exert their
influence.
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The
Ice Storm (1997)
Drama
1 hr. 53 min.
Its 1973 in
New Canaan, Connecticut, and Ben and Elena Hood are feeling the
destabilizing winds of change and moral quandary blow through their
wealthy suburb. As Ben carries on a discreet affair with neighbor
Janey Carver, his teenage kids explore their own sexual
boundaries--all against the cultural backdrop of Watergate,
mind-altering drugs, and the fashion excess of the seventies. The
night an ice storm sweeps into town, the delicate web of emotions
and honor which binds these people is tested to its breaking point.
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